NEW TI Users - Lets hear your opinions......

[grs]

Originally Posted by DIGITAL SCREAMS

I just want to savour these moments. My post count has just hit the 1980's....

DS

You are one sick puppy. :P

[glendale]

Hey

I've created a "quick and dirty" Sonar instrument definiton file. Send me a PM for the file (but it isn't completed yet )

Cheers,
glen

[ten]

Mini review...

Installer is crap, could of been and SHOULD of been a lot better.

Vcontrol is very very cool, but does has a few minor bugs here and there that will hopefully be ironed out in later revisions. The hardware outs being able to be controlled in the vcontrol AND delay compensated is super cool!! Total recall for patches is a godsend, full automation and patch browser all great.

The keyboard itself is lush....huge and solid, very well built. The keys are just the right amount of weight also, very nice keyb. Knobs, buttons and lcd screen all seem sturdy enough and well placed.

And the sound, well what can I say, its immense. Hypersaw damn god, with this up full with some unison and wide spread it just tears the walls down....sounds very much jp8000 which is cool, it also seems they might have sorted out the weak highend the virus used to have with certain saw sounds....nice one. Yep the sound is simply stunning, I could go through all the different names, lush, rich, gritty, harsh, soft, etc but to put it bluntly the sound quality is just jaw dropping....love it.

The 1000s of presets it comes with will keep anyone busy for days and just a few tweaks here and there can create totally new sounds.

The sound over USB gives some pops and farts now and then, even on my quad cpu machine so I think it needs a few tweaks there. The hardware outs, though work perfectly and its nice having 5 stereo outputs to play with all being controlled from the vcontrol.

ten

[MADSTATION]

ten: I might have misunderstood but are you saying that you can use Vcontrol on the analog outs?!

If so, that is WICKED news!
I wasn't expecting that at all.
Great review as well

[ten]

Yes you can...and they are delay compensated.....extremely cool

ten

[MADSTATION]

That's awesome!
So in the end I might not really use USB for audio but just for the Vcontrol software link since 3 analog stereo out is enough for me

[ten]

Wow, just played with the wavetables for a bit.....you could seriously make some mad evolving sounds with these.....very impressed again!

ten

[technomonster]

TEN WROTE
[quote]
Yes you can...and they are delay compensated.....extremely cool

DELAY COMPENSATION relative to what?

sorry for asking such a stupid question, but as i use LOGIC 5.5.1 dealy compensation for plug-ins doesnt exist yet.

from my layman attempts at understanding what happens with delay compensation for plug-ins is that all audio tracks (maybe midi tracks as well).
get delayed to fit the delay caused by the most delay causing plug-in on an audio track
mmmmmmm that gave me a headache.

beats me how VIRUS ti does any delay compensation to work in with evrything else recorded in a project in a sequencer.

[ten]

Well, originally when you had a hardware synth using normal analog outs there would be a delay in the sound from the synth into the sequencer depending on what rate your soundcard was set. Now you could use the audio track in direct hardware mode and the sound would be in sync but you wouldnt be able to put any effects on that track so it was a bit of a trade-off. They seem to have found a way around this here with delay compensation, very impressive, very happy

edit: actually this might just be cubase sx3.1s new external hardware delay comp....ive never used it before be nice if someone from Access could clarify? Does the TI software delay compensate on the hardware outputs in sequencers that support delay comp???? Or is it just the USB outputs that have this?

ten

[Khazul]

OK slap me if this is a dumb question as I havnt fiddled with either yet.

But what is the difference between the Virus TI Midi and Virus TI Synth ports that are listed as midi ports in windows?